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noun

Deuce n.

(Gaming) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.

(Tennis) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.

Deuce n. (Written also deuse) The devil; a demon. A euphemism. (Low)

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"Deuce" Quotes from Famous Books

... if I can puzzle it out yet myself," said Barraclough. "If they've got it, why the deuce do they come and ...

— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson

... "The deuce! the deuce! a bad business!" said Jacquet, examining the letter as a usurer examines a note to be negotiated. "Ha! that's a gridiron letter! Wait ...

— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac

... that I wish he would go to the deuce with it, he will leave it to a hospital. Is that ...

— Washington Square • Henry James

... fifty-two," whispered Mr. Malthus. "Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. Happy, happy young men!" he added. "You have good eyes, and can follow the game. Alas! I cannot tell an ace from a deuce across ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the mischief is all this?" exclaimed the bewildered Mr Pitskiver; "this isn't the jeanie-ass you promised me a sight of. Who the deuce is this?" ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844 • Various

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